How to Compete With a Computer in the Online News Media Game [aboutcomputer99.blogspot.com]

How to Compete With a Computer in the Online News Media Game [aboutcomputer99.blogspot.com]

It seems every day we turn around and a computer or a robot is taking the job of the human. Certainly, it's helped our civilization and many industries create incredible productivity, but those jobs may never be coming back. As we complain about jobs being outsourced to other countries overseas, we also should be concerned with the jobs being replaced in our own country by robots. Okay so, let's talk about this for second shall we?

Let's say you are a news reporter, or you are producing news content for the Internet, or a local newspaper. How on earth can you compete with computers to generate news stories? Oh you hadn't heard, you didn't know that many of the articles you read online were actually created by a computer program rather than human, did you - it's true. In fact, there are now computer programs which scan the Internet for various events, and when they see similar stories popping up in various places they create a unique title using derivative algorit hmic tricks, and then go online and find the;

WhoWhatWhenWhereWhyHow

And then they take that information and put it into a paragraph format just as any news story might read. Of course, the whole thing is plagiarized, but it's plagiarized from so many different sources, that no one would ever know the difference. And this is what's going on today. But how can a news reporter keep up with that? Interestingly enough, many news reporters rather than doing actual reporting do the same thing. They go onto the Internet read 4 or 5 articles on the same news event, and a rewrite it and make their own story.

This is unfortunate because no one knows if the original information from the very first article or the first few articles is even correct? Because of computers, humans trying to compete have cheated just as the computers are cheating. And because of this, we are getting lousy news stories and content online, much of it may not even be correct. Further, who is t o say someone didn't plant 4 or 5 stories in the media that they just made up, creating a news event that never happened in the first place, how would we ever know?

If you want to compete against computers when you create news articles, then you need to go to the source of the article, get personal interviews of people who were actually there, talk to them on the phone, and then use their first-hand account and their own words, quoting them in your article. Otherwise, you're just putting more garbage on top of garbage, and as a news junkie, I'm tired of reading it. This is how you can do it right and create great news content and still compete. Please consider all this and think on it.

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Question by Mary L: Where do I go to download a subtitle for hearing impaired to watch the news on computer? On home computer, hearing impaired wants to see the news, but can't tell what is being said. Can subtitle be downloaded on Yahoo, or is it in control panel, or what? Anybody know this one? Best answer for Where do I go to download a subtitle for hearing impaired to watch the news on computer?:

Answer by Who Knew?
I have wondered that same thing for a long time. I haven't yet found closed captioning for the internet. I will be watching to see who knows.

Answer by mtnglo
This is all I could find out about closed captioning for the internet. On June 20, 2008, Congress's biggest telecom disability rights advocate introduced new legislation that would, among other provisions, extend close captioning to some Internet video. Edward Markey's (D-MA) "21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2008" (H.R. 6320) covers about a dozen areas. The law says that 18 months after its enactment, the Federal Communications Commission must set up regulations that include "an appropriate schedule of deadlines for the provision of closed captioning of video programming distributed to the public over the Internet." http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/06/new-bill-mandates-closed-captioning-for-internet-video.ars

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